In the current Confluence 4.x editor if you want to insert the {info} macro with a title into a page you have to:
- Start typing {info to trigger the macro suggestions macro
- Select the Info macro from the list to insert it into the page
- Click on the inserted Info macro to select it
- Enter your chosen title in the Edit Info Macro screen
- Click save
which is all a bit long winded, but here’s a sneak peek of the new autoformatting of wiki markup for macros feature due to be shipped in Confluence 4.1.2 over the next couple of weeks:
Autoformatting of Wiki Markup for Macros
As you can see you just type:
{info:title=<my title>}
Nice 
Atlassian have taken a fair bit of stick over the decision to drop plain text wiki markup editing from Confluence 4.x onwards so it’s good to see them listening to their customers and continually improving the new rich text editor to make editing as easy as possible for new users and hardcore markup editors alike.
I’m looking forward to seeing what other improvements and new features Confluence brings in 2012.
UPDATE: 24 January 2012
More polished video now available:
courtesy of this Atlassian blog post.
